Night's Nomenclature
Chapter 242: Using Oneself as Bait

On the quiet long street, 7 cars were blocked, lying quietly on the road.

Affected by the EMP grenade, the electronic components on the vehicles were all destroyed. If you want to restart the cars, someone needs to get out and crank the diesel engines.

Most importantly, communication between the seven cars was cut off.

If they wanted to contact each other, they would probably have to open the doors and shout to convey information, because the bulletproof glass was too thick, and the cars were soundproof.

However, the snipers were not dead yet; rashly opening the doors would be problematic.

There was no noise from the sides of the road. After hearing the sniper fire, the residents in the buildings hid in their homes, seeking cover.

District 4 is the most active area for gangs, with frequent shootouts, so the residents knew how to protect themselves.

Only a few windows still seemed to have figures moving about.

"What are they waiting for?" Qing Chen asked. "From the moment they used the vehicles to block this place, a minute and a half has passed. Logically, this kind of ambush plan is one ring after another; the attack should follow one after the other. But now it seems that they are not in a hurry, they only seem to want to stop you here."

Li Changqing thought for a moment and said, "They may not be sure if I have a backup plan, so they want to wait and see."

"Then what are you waiting for?" Qing Chen asked again. "Besides sending drones to search for the sniper, you haven't taken any other actions. I don't believe that someone who can complete the City 1 cleansing would sit here and wait for death, so where is your backup plan?"

Li Changqing smiled and said, "Do you have so much faith in Auntie?"

She wasn't much older than Qing Chen, but she particularly liked using the term "Auntie" to tease Qing Chen.

At this moment, from the dark window where Qing Chen had just located the sniper, a burst of fire erupted.

Someone in that room seemed to have thrown a grenade, killing the sniper along with it.

Shattered glass fragments from the sky fell to the ground, making a crisp sound that could be vaguely heard even inside the car.

Qing Chen suddenly understood that not only did the people ambushing Li Changqing have an ambush in this building, but Li Changqing's people had also preemptively ambushed here.

He pondered, are the struggles between Conglomerates all so meticulously planned?

"How many ambushes do you have in the building?" Qing Chen asked, "It shouldn't be many, right?"

"Why do you say that?" Li Changqing curiously asked.

"I don't believe you could have known in advance that the ambush would be here; otherwise, you wouldn't have allowed yourself to be so passively blocked here. So I tend to think you have deployed a few people in each building along the way, to be used as surprise troops at a critical moment," Qing Chen analyzed.

Li Changqing's eyes lit up, but she didn't answer directly.

The next moment, the ambushers seemed to have discovered that the sniper had been killed. The cargo trucks blocking the front and rear suddenly opened their truck beds, and a group of soldiers in black combat uniforms poured out. Everyone carried automatic rifles.

They were attacking from both sides!

The street wasn't wide; the enemy was about to encircle Li Changqing's convoy.

"79 people," Qing Chen said immediately. "There are still ambushers upstairs; the total number should be over 100."

And they, including Old Six, only had 26 people.

Qing Chen knew Old Six was powerful, but the problem was, could even a B-Class expert withstand so much concentrated gunfire?

Old Six narrowed his eyes and said to Little Eagle, "Stay in the car to protect the Boss; you can die, but the Boss can't."

"Understood," Little Eagle nodded decisively.

For a moment, Old Six opened the car door, kicked off the ground with one foot, and shot out like a cannonball.

When the enemy saw someone getting out of the bulletproof car, they immediately opened fire on Old Six, but they saw Old Six roll over after landing and limped and ran wildly along a wall on the side of the road, as if completely unaffected by gravity, bullets kicking up a series of dust behind him!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, everyone in the convoy opened their car doors, set up their weapons, and returned fire on the enemy attacking from both sides.

Little Eagle took out his pistol from his ribs and said, "Boss, stay in the car, don't be afraid…"

Before he finished speaking, when he looked back, he saw Qing Chen reaching across the back seat to pull out the sniper rifle case, then reached across Li Changqing's body and opened the car door on the woman's left.

"Get out," Qing Chen said. "I'll take you straight into the building!"

Li Changqing thought for a moment: "But the building isn't safe either. As you judged, I only placed one key piece in this building, and the other party has risked their lives to kill the sniper, and they are probably dead already."

"It's still better than staying here to be a target," Qing Chen said. "The car is bulletproof, but as long as Old Six and the others can't hold on, those thugs can simply install a bomb under the chassis and blow us to the sky."

"But Auntie isn't as weak as you think," Li Changqing said with a smile. "Maybe Auntie's reinforcements are already on their way?"

"Then we should find a safer place," Qing Chen said calmly. "In battle, a moving target is always harder to hit than a stationary target. What you need to do now is move."

Li Changqing thoughtfully asked, "But what if I go into the building with you, and you hand me over to the enemy? What if you're an undercover agent?"

"Do you believe me?" Qing Chen asked.

Li Changqing suddenly smiled and got out of the car: "Believe."

As soon as the words fell, Qing Chen, like a cheetah, emerged from the car behind Li Changqing. He grabbed Li Changqing's arm and ran towards the building.

The firepower on the battlefield was completely controlled by Old Six and the others, so much so that only after Qing Chen and Li Changqing entered the building did everyone react.

Old Six secretly felt uneasy. The reinforcements arranged by the Boss were about to arrive. At this time, it would be wiser to stay in the bulletproof car and wait for reinforcements.

They only needed to hold on for another 10 minutes, and reinforcements would completely surround the area.

And what Li Changqing was going to do tonight was to use herself as bait to lure out some people with ulterior motives.

Before she returned to City 1, she had already bought some information from the Hu Family Intelligence Agency, and clues indicated that a big shot from Koshima had secretly infiltrated City 18.

This big shot from Koshima had clashed with Li Changqing in City 1, but ended up fleeing in disgrace. The other party's infiltration of City 18 certainly wouldn't be for good intentions.

However, after the other party entered City 18, they became silent. Li Changqing had been digging for them for three days, but hadn't found any clues.

With City 18 about to be hit by a storm, Li Changqing was unwilling to have such a person stirring up trouble in her territory, so she took a risky approach, using herself as bait.

Even her itinerary tonight was leaked by the informants she had cultivated for many years.

Old Six watched Qing Chen and Li Changqing's backs disappear into the building and thought to himself, it's one thing that Qing Chen hadn't received formal security training, but the Boss herself knew the plan, why would she go along with Qing Chen's reckless actions?

At this time, there was no way of knowing how many enemies were in the building; everything was unknown; how could they risk leaving the bulletproof vehicle?

However, at this moment, a small, palm-sized black mechanical spider suddenly crawled out from the shadows by the side of the street. Under the control of Neural Link, it quickly crawled under a car.

Immediately after, a huge fire suddenly erupted from the inside of the mechanical spider, violently throwing the car, and the security personnel sheltering behind the car doors, into the air!

"Shendai Family's remote self-destruct bombs," Xiao Gong yelled from behind. "Koshima and Shendai have joined forces."

This kind of mechanical spider is a special military device, which was also included in the Federation army's key control catalog. Now that the other party is using EMP bombs and mechanical spiders together, it seems that they failed to gain a foothold in City 1, and in their anger, they are planning to turn the tables and tear up the Face^[-] to start a war.

Old Six suddenly looked at the building where Qing Chen and Li Changqing had disappeared, and felt a surge of fear. If Li Changqing had still been in the car just now, the mechanical spider's target would definitely have been vehicle number 2!

In the building, Qing Chen released Li Changqing's arm, and he pressed the elevator's up button.

Li Changqing curiously said, "At this time, is it really okay to take the elevator? When the elevator door opens, the people inside will be shot into sieves, right?"

Qing Chen thought for a moment: "Yes, everyone thinks we won't dare to take the elevator up, so we'll take the elevator up, there shouldn't be any problems."

Li Changqing was stunned; the young man in front of her seemed to have no problem with his statement.

Qing Chen held his pistol, his expression calm, aiming it at the elevator seam, waiting for the elevator to open.

When the elevator opened, it was empty.

"Go," Qing Chen took the lead and went in, pressing every floor.

But he didn't honestly wait for the elevator to slowly ascend; he directly smashed open the ventilation opening on the elevator ceiling and leaped lightly into the elevator shaft.

He looked down at Li Changqing and said, "Give me your hand."

Li Changqing suddenly found it interesting; she reached out and let Qing Chen pull her into the elevator shaft: "And then?"

As the elevator slowly ascended, Qing Chen pointed to the vertical ladder on one side of the elevator shaft: "Climb the ladder with me; we'll be faster than the elevator. When everyone's attention is focused on the elevator floors, we'll already be on the upper floors."

Li Changqing looked at her high heels: "I'm just an ordinary person; I can't climb that fast, carry me. If we both get out of this alive, I'll let you shoot me in a shooting range, and I'll owe you a favor."

Qing Chen hesitated for a second: "Okay."

With that, Li Changqing actively jumped onto Qing Chen's back, and the young man quickly climbed the ladder.

The elevator didn't stop until the 5th floor, but by the time the elevator stopped on the 5th floor, Qing Chen had already climbed to the 9th floor.

Li Changqing was lying on his back, her head resting on his shoulder, the pleasant scent kept entering Qing Chen's nose.

Qing Chen suddenly said, "You're a Metahuman."

This sentence scared Li Changqing almost to the point of letting go and falling!

"Why do you say that?" Li Changqing asked.

Qing Chen said, "Stop pretending; you're a Metahuman. If it were an ordinary person, in this kind of vertical upward climbing process, their arms wouldn't be able to support their own weight, and they would have let go of me long ago. But you're different; your arms are strong and powerful, this isn't the strength an ordinary person can possess."

Mainly, Li Changqing was hugging him a little too tightly.

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